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TechCrunch Minute: Audible deploys AI-narrated audiobooks. Can it replace the human touch?
Audible is making it easy for authors to generate AI-narrated audiobooks. While authors are bullish on the tool, customers, critics, and professional narrators have concerns. Is quantity over quality the way to win the audiobook game?
Audible is making it easy for authors to generate AI-narrated audiobooks, and as in many cases of AI showing up in an established industry, there’s worry that the creative folks are going to get squeezed out by the robots. On the other hand, it’s clear that not every book that is written can afford to hire a narrator, an editor, and a team to handle audio publishing. But the middle-tier of narrators and authors might find that AI is just so cheap for audiobook creation that it’s not financially reasonable to pay a human to do it.
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